Improvement in bosom-pads



J. c. TALLMAN.

BOSOM-PADS.

Patentd DecQlZ, 1876.

THE GRAPHIC ELI-FLY JOHN G. TALLMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOSOiVl-PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,362, dated December 12, 1876; application filed October 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that 1, JOHN 000K TALLMAN,

of the city, county, and State of New York,

I secure an elasticity resembling the nat ural bosom by means of cork, employed in the manner hereinafter described, as a basis for the pads, and to which the other materials employed are attached. Cork has heretofore been employed in the manufacture of bosompads; but the use of cork incombination with the other materials I employ obviates difficulties hitherto attending the use of cork alone for this purpose. When cork alone is used in a bosom-pad, it presents a hard edge to that portion of the breast just anterior to the armpits, and causes irritation by pressure. Moreover, when cork is used in thin plates, unstrengthened by other tougher ma terials, it is liable to crack, more especially when such plates are profusely perforated to aflord the necessary ventilation and prevent undue heating of the breasts. By my invention I avoid all these disadvantages.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawing represents my improved bosom-pads placed upon a femalebosom, as they are designed to be worn. Fig. 2 showsthe arrangement of the cork plates before and after the other materials are joined thereto. Fig. 3 shows the cork plates arranged in Fig. 2, with gores of reticulated material attached to said cork plates. Fig. 4 shows the pad in a still further advanced stage of manufacture, and Fig. 5 shows a pad finished.

The manufacture of the pad is commenced by the preparation of two thin plates of cork, A A, placed transversely to each other, and

one of which, A, is superimposed upon the other, as shown in Fig. 2. The cork plates, faced with muslin on the inner side and so placed, are pressed in a mold or former to give them the required concavity on the inner side, and convexity on the outer side. When so pressed the cork plates are placed on a convex form, and flexible reticulated gores B, Figs. 3, 4, and 5, are pasted thereto, said gores overlapping said plates, as shown in Fig. 3. On the same or a similar form the muslin strips 0 0, Figs. 4 and 5, are then pasted upon the cork plates,said muslin strips overlapping the edges of the reticulated gores, which are pasted to the cork plates. Ornamental borders, 1), Fig.5, may or may not then be pasted upon the edges of the muslin strips 0 O.

The muslin strips 0 O, the inner muslin facings of the cork plates, the reticulated gores B, and the ornamental borders 1) b are, furthermore, still more strongly attached to the cork plates by through-and-through stitchingl; but, instead of two cork plates, more than two, with intervening gores B, may be used.

The pad is then completed by pasting and stitching thereto an edge-binding, b, Fig. 5, and a flap, F, Fig. 5, said flap being provided with eyelets 2', Fig. 5, through which a cord or lace, L, Fig. 1, being passed, two pads may be flexibly and adjustably coupled together, as shown in Fig. 1, or otherwise equivalently connected. This arrangement provides a very convenient adjustment for two pads when worn, and the disposition of the eyelets along the broad eyelet-flap prevents the independent rotation and displacement of either pad.

The reticulated gores afford ample ventilation, and render the edges of the pads far more flexible, thus avoidinginjurious pressure upon any part of the breast. For the muslin inner facings, covering-strips, ornamental borders, binding, and eyelet-flaps, any suitable flexible material may be substituted, such as silk or kid, and the flexible recticulated gores may be made of any reticulated material suitable for the purpose, as ornamental insertion, lace, &c. Finally, the parts constructedas described may or may not be furnished with removable or attached outer flexiblecoverings, as desired.

I do not claim a bosom-pad made entirely of 2. The combination, with two bosom-pads, cork, nor the employment of cork as a mateof a flexible and adjustable connection, subrial in the manufacture of basom-pads but stantially as and for the purposes set forth.

I desire to secure by Letters Patent the construction and arrangement embraced in the JOHN C. TALLMAN. following claims:

1. A bosom-pad composed of the crossing Witnesses: cork plates A A and the intervening reticu- BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, lated gores 13, substantially as and for the FRED. HAYNES. purposes set forth. 

